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Turkey: Suspect remanded over murder of Syrian activist

Image of Dr Orouba Barakat and her 22-year-old daughter Halla who were found dead in their apartment in Istanbul, Turkey [Suzanne Barakat/Facebook]

October 7, 2017 at 2:30 pm

A Turkish court remanded into custody a suspect on Friday over the fatal stabbings of a Syrian anti-Bashar al-Assad activist and her journalist daughter in Istanbul.

The Syrian suspect, identified only by the initials A.B., was arrested in the northwestern province of Bursa on Sept. 30 after being spotted on security footage from the apartment building, a police source said.

The bodies of Orouba Barakat, 60, and her 22-year-old daughter Halla Barakat were found in their apartment in Uskudar, a neighborhood on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, on 21 September 2017

The alarm was raised after Halla Barakat did not go to work for two days and colleagues contacted police.

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